Escola, sociedade, ambiente e gestão sustentável

Abstract

This study consists in analyzing ways to promote a sustainable school management, through small actions, seeking methodological strategies to the awareness of the involved. Accordingly, analysis was made of the actions promoted by the State High School Marquês de Caravelas, from the city of Carazinho, to see what improvements could be made within the school, to make it sustainable. Based on a brief review of the literature on school management, environmental education, this paper proposes alternatives to be applied during sustainable education labor. In the first analysis, it was sought to verify what a school needs to be sustainable. And nothing more important than building a good plan, that is, through the construction of a new Political Pedagogical Project, then direct the role of each member of the community in building sustainable school. Within this context, we present some methodological alternatives that can be used by a sustainable school: first the school garden as a means of promoting the interaction of the school community. The second is working with riparian forests, where the school can sensitize their students through the recovery of these forests on the slopes of rivers and streams existing nearby school. And the third methodological alternative, that the sustainable school will be able to use to the awareness of its students, are the visits to Protected Areas, as these show the scenic beauty of biodiversity conservation, aiding to the interpretation of why preserving the natural heritage. Data were collected through questionnaires, made with students, teachers and administrators of the State High School Marquês de Caravelas. Data analysis was performed according to the assumptions of Severino (2007). As we finish this analysis it´s possible to conclude that it is of utmost urgency that teaching awareness through sustainable practices in schools have to be adopted. This will result in an improvement in the inter-relationships between the school community and the environment, as children and adolescents have greater ease in adapting to new proposals and this will result in benefits common to several species of local flora and fauna, including man.